Improvement in making printed felt hats



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED BAILEY, OF AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MAKING PRINTED FELT Spccilication forming part of LettersPatent No. 47,269, dated April 18, 1855.

To all whom, it may concern.:

Beit known that I, ALFRED BAILEY, of Amesbury, in the county of Essexand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin the Art of Making Printed or Embossed Felt Hats; and I. do herebydeclare the same to be fully described in the following specificationand represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure ldenotethe conical or original form in which the hat is made or felted. Fig. 2is a view of the rirn part reduced to a plane, ready for being printedor embossed. Fig. 3

is a View of the body reduced to a plane or dat shape for being printedor embossed. Fig. 4 is a section of the two parts of the hat assubsequently formed and arranged for the purpose of being connectedtogether. y

In carrying out my invention I take the hat-body formed or i'elted intothe shape of ahollow cone, and block it on ahatters block of therequired size and shape which will approximate to that shown in Fig. 5,which denotes a vertical section of it. Next the body part a is to becut or separated from the main portion b on aline, c c, near the base ofthe body. After this has been done each of the paris (i b is to bereduced to a fiat plane, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, by steaming andwettingand putting out.77 the fabric in a manner well known to workersin felt. The next step of the process is to print or embossthe externalsurface of each portion with the Iigure or'iig ures required, afterwhich'each part is to be again blocked or brought into the shapenecessary for being sewed or connected together, such shapes beingrepresented in Fig 4.

In the common Wayof making printed felt hats the felt cone shown in Fig.1, after being blocked nearly or quite to the shape rc- I quired, iscompressed together, so as to be dat on two opposite sides, after whichcach side is printed or stamped with the figure or iigures. The junctionot the two imprints is apt to produce an irregular seam or joiningthrough the entire outer` surface of the hat, all of which is avoided bymy invention or improved process of making the hat. I

\Vhat I claim as my'invention is 'My improved Inode, as above described,of making a printed or embossed felt hat.

ALFRED B AI LEY.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, Y i. F. P. HALE, J r.

